A legal academic and trainee solicitor has appeared in court charged with the murder of a finance professor.He is charged with the murder of Professor Scott George at the pensioner’s home on Tobersool Lane, near Balbriggan in north County Dublin on Thursday evening.READ MORE - RTE Late Late Show viewers 'turn off' after 'awkward' moment
He also has another degree in law from the University of Oxford. Scott George, 76, was a Professor of Finance at a university in Shanghai, China, and was also a company director. He said Dr McCormack-George, who wore a navy fleece, grey bottoms and white runners in court, was then charged with murder there at 11.28pm.The district court does not have the power to deal with matters of bail in a murder case and Mr McCormack-George was remanded in custody. He will appear again at Cloverhill District Court via video link on December 20.